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Best AI to manage approvals

Collect decisions from authorized people and advance or reject a request. We reviewed 7 products from 6 companies on a 100-point evidence score. These 5 earned a place.

Updated Oct 20, 20267 products reviewed6 companies

Market noteScores reflect documented task fit, adoption evidence, product detail, pricing and market fit. Vendor claims remain unverified unless independently corroborated. Missing evidence indicates uncertainty, not poor product quality.

  1. 1

    Risotto

    Chat-based requests, manager approvals and access grants establish a complete approval workflow. Product-attributable customer cases support adoption evidence under the supplied contract. Listed pricing is $1,250/month paid annually, but incomplete plan terms limit pricing transparency.

    Best for internal IT teams collecting manager approvals and provisioning software access through chatFree trialFrom $1,250/year

    Task fit
    40/40
    Adoption
    10/20
    Evidence
    11/15
    Pricing
    11/15
    Market fit
    10/10
  2. 2

    Veles CPQ

    by Veles

    Explicit deal-desk approval routing and end-to-end approval claims establish task fit for business users. Quoting, document outputs and named integrations provide concrete workflow evidence; published per-contract pricing provides useful but incomplete commercial terms.

    Best for sales and RevOps teams routing deal-desk approvals alongside quoting and contract generationFree planFrom $8/month

    Task fit
    30/40
    Adoption
    5/20
    Evidence
    11/15
    Pricing
    11/15
    Market fit
    10/10
  3. 3

    Governance

    by Clawvisor

    Describes task approval with per-request enforcement, plus plain-English RBAC/ABAC policies that auto-approve low-risk tasks or hold high-risk tasks for human review.

    Best for security teams requiring human authorization for AI-agent actionsFree planFrom $50/month

    Task fit
    34/40
    Adoption
    2/20
    Evidence
    11/15
    Pricing
    11/15
    Market fit
    9/10
  4. 4

    Workflow86

    Human-in-the-loop approvals explicitly support the task for business users. Concrete capabilities are described, but no detailed approval workflow supports maximum market fit. Social-following evidence supports adoption at 25, and a defined 14-day trial supports pricing transparency.

    Best for business teams adding human approval steps to AI-enabled workflowsFree planCustom pricing

    Task fit
    30/40
    Adoption
    5/20
    Evidence
    8/15
    Pricing
    11/15
    Market fit
    8/10
  5. 5

    Actions

    by Quivly

    Provides an inbox for AI-drafted recommendations and workflow approvals, including editable email, Slack, and calendar actions.

    Best for post-sales teams reviewing AI-proposed customer actions

    Task fit
    35/40
    Adoption
    2/20
    Evidence
    11/15
    Pricing
    0/15
    Market fit
    9/10

We reviewed 7 candidate products from 6 companies and published 5 positions. Totals include duplicate company entries and products removed during task, market and evidence review. Each company holds at most one position.